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in one, like the companion scenes in a stereoscope, in close and 

 kindly combination — is in store for us. Even as it is, tlie country 

 is very beautiful, and the rains of the west, if superabundant, are 

 at least perfectly harmless to any one in ordinary health, no matter 

 how often you get drenched through and through, as the saying is, 

 provided always you do not idly saunter or sit down for any length 

 of time in wet clothes ; neglect this precaution, however, and you 

 may look out for an attack of rheumatism, and the taste of pains 

 to which the tortures of the rack were but a joke — pains as fiery 

 and intense as those threatened against the foul-mouthed Caliban 

 in the Tempest. You recollect what Prospero says — 



*' Hag-seed hence ! 

 Fetch us in fuel ; and be quick, thou wert best 

 To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice ? 

 If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly 

 What I command, /'ZZ rack thee with old cramps ; 

 FiU aU thy hemes with aches; make thee roar 

 That beasts shall tremble at thy din ! " 



Get wet, then, as often and as much as you like, in the West 

 Highlands, but don't sit down or idle about in wet clothes, is a 

 friend's advice ; otherwise, you will soon have a pretty correct idea 

 of the nature of the cramps and aches of which even the brutal 

 Caliban had such a horror that he exclaims : — 



' ' No, 'pray thee ! — • 



I must obey : his art is of such power, 

 It would control my dam's god, Setebos, 

 And make a vassal of him." 



Supplementary to our last paper on the spells and incantations 

 of the Highlands, the following has been sent to us by our kind 

 correspondent, Mr. Carmichael, of the Inland Eevenue, Island of 

 Uist, a gentleman of whom highly honourable mention is made in 

 Mr. Campbell's West Highland Tales, and in some of the notes to 

 the Eev Dr. Clerk's Ossian. Mr. Carmichael is more conversant. 



